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What is an Extended Essay?

This page on "What is an Extended Essay?" discusses not only what an Extended Essay is but, possibly of equal importance, what an Extended Essay is not. Put simply an Extended Essay is a 40 hour in-depth study of a focused topic chosen by the student in either a single IB Diploma subject or involving an interdisciplinary approach across two Diploma subjects written with a limit of 4000 words. It is also accompanied...

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